Elevate the Everyday
Featured Products Promotional FeaturesPosted by: Dental Design 26th April 2022
This year’s British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show (BDCDS) will include a wonderful array of speakers eager to share their insights with you. In particular, Dr Tif Qureshi will be presenting “Ortho Restorative Dentistry for Every Dentist and Every Patient” in the Specialist Interest Theatre. Here’s what Dr Qureshi has to say about what you can expect:
“The idea of the lecture is to make the dentist look at their everyday patient in more detail, encouraging them to start to diagnose the long-term movement and functional changes occurring in their patient’s mouth, which can easily be prevented. I would also like to help change people’s basic standard for the intraoral examination. Currently, the focus is on caries and periodontal health when it comes to dental charting. However, dentists seem to very rarely track toothwear. Unless you’re taking photographs, scans, or models regularly there’s a lot of stuff that will be going on that won’t be seen – a lot of things develop over the years.
“This is applicable to every single patient and will be useful at some point in their life. Plus, every dentist should be able to do this. Long term functional changes can be missed if they aren’t tracked – if a dentist can identify and treat problems early on, we can prevent any patient who sees a dentist regularly from needing a full mouth rehabilitation further down the line.
“If dentists understand how to intervene at the right time it could make a massive difference to the patient over the years – whether someone works in a mostly NHS, or private environment, in the role of a dentist, practice manager or dental hygienist, my lecture content is relevant to the whole team. Another positive of this approach is that your patients’ experience will improve too – if you start to take photographs, scans, or models of your patient’s teeth you can use them to educate your patients on their oral health over time. You can also advise them about any potential problems that might result in a big problem later down the line and speaking about potential preventative treatments. Overall, this will improve the communication you have with your patient and as they become more educated they may become more motivated to focus on their oral health. Ultimately, this will enhance the treatment options you have for existing patients.
“The British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show has always been a fantastic show and after a couple of years of downtime it will be amazing to get back to it. It will be exciting to be back!”
The next British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show will be held on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th May 2022, Birmingham NEC, co-located with DTS.
For more information, visit www.thedentistryshow.co.uk, call 020 7348 5270 or email dentistry@closerstillmedia.com
